Website terms and conditions template: recruitment site or job listings site

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This website terms and conditions template sets out the relationship between your seekers and recruiters. It provides your business with protection in case a transaction between third parties fails, and gives you strong legal protection against malicious use of your website and misuse of your intellectual property.

About this terms and conditions document

This T&C document has been written for the owner of a job site. It covers both usual recruitment services and whatever other services you provide to either side from your website.

Is this template suitable for your website?

This template is for any website that creates a marketplace primarily for recruitment, where both job seekers and recruiters interface your system entirely through your website. The same terms also cover access from a mobile device such as a smartphone.

Your recruiters and seekers may be anywhere in the World.

The benefit of clear terms and conditions

Website terms and conditions are probably the best example of a legal document where use of plain language strengthens the legal effect of the document. If a dispute should arise, it would be hard for a user of your site to claim that he did not understand, even if English is not his first language.

Using this document on your website will help you to:

set out clearly how your business works and how users should act and behave;

ensure that users receive the quality of service that you aim to provide;

present a professional image of your business. Our use of plain language helps ensure that sellers do not feel intimidated by overly formal or legalistic language;

prevent misunderstandings and make solving disputes easier;

protect your website from misuse (we include paragraphs that set out exactly how users can interact with your website, and what they cannot do);

protect your business from complaints about content that your users posted - particularly important if users can post information, questions, data and take part in discussions without you actively monitoring every post or message.

The law in this document

The law in these T&C is largely common law that deals with the basics of contracts: offer, acceptance, price and payment, provision of service, liabilities and risk. By and large, you can set the terms you want, particularly the commercial ones. The document should be edited so that it reflects exactly how your business works. Our guidance notes will tell you what you can change safely, and what we don't advise changing.

Contents of this terms and conditions

This terms and conditions template includes provisions that cover both the relationship between the recruiter and job seeker and the relationship between your business and each of them.

It includes terms relating to:

Definitions and interpretation

Basis of contract between your business and each of recruiters and job seekers

Application of consumer protection law

Prices for your services

Renewal payments and credit cards

Extensive options for re-assurance to customers that you will take care of data

Very extensive options as to what a user may or may not do on your website.

Removal of offensive content

Security of your website

Storage of data

Terms specific to recruiters

Terms specific to job seekers

Protection of copyright and other intellectual property rights

Interruption to service

Disclaimers and limitation of liability

Miscellaneous legal matters to protect your business

Over 3,000 words of helpful notes to make your task even easier.

Draftsman

This document was written by a solicitor for Net Lawman. It complies with current South Africa law.

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